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Site related news, functions and modules / Name of ship with apostrophe

« on: October 09, 2014, 01:24:42 PM »

Hello

There is a "new" french frigate replica named L'Hermione but the apostrophe is not so easy in English name.

Then for this ship there is actually minimum 3 ways to classified her on Shipspotting

This one is wrong as no L on the name - L is without doubt the first letter of her name - then for example on AIS she's LHERMIONE 

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?query=hermione+&x=27&y=8

That one is may be the solution with a space between L and H

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?query=L+Hermione&x=25&y=2

I've try myself the French way apostrophe and I don't know what's wrong with a / 

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2121652

Off course it's a "normal" problem with foreign language like the

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Site related news, functions and modules / Heavy lift ship

« on: October 18, 2013, 04:27:57 PM »

Hi All,

I was surprised when posted the Heavy lift ship Frauke that my picture was transfered to General Cargo ships built 2000-2010 (Over 3000gt)

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1897985

The Frauke is a real heavy lift ship with large crane and outboard ballast tank

2 x 700 mtons SWL, 1 x 350 mtons SWL,combinable up to 1,400 mtons SWL

She is classed : GL + 100 A5, G Solas II-2-Reg. 19, General Cargo Ship, Strengthened for Heavy Cargo, Heavy Lift Ship, MC AUT

By the way I was looking the other ships in this category with Shipspotting.com and find that almost only semi-submersible are in this category.

It's not understandable how this category is working specialy when removing all the fleet of one of the main Heavy Lift ship owner

http://sal-heavylift.com/eng/home/
 
Like a confusion all the Kahn fleet is accepted as Heavy lift. Where is the difference ?
   
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?search_owner=Kahn Scheepvaart - Rotterdam, Netherlands

Maybe somebody can explain this snag ?

Have a nice day

Christian Herrou